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/The Daily Tar Heel/Friday, February 26, 1993
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PETER WallsTEN, Editor Office hours: Fridays 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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Jackie Hershkowitz, City Editor
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Sex sells —but not in Hillsborough.
Propaganda by a group that hearkens back to the
Moral Majority of the 1980s seems to be the only
thing that the town’s board of adjustment and resi
dents are buying.
A week ago, the Orange Coalition Against Por
nography took out a full-page ad in local newspapers
asking people to join it in saying “No” to PHE, Inc.,
which runs Adam & Eve, the nation’s largest mail
order business of sex materials, adult videotapes and
contraceptives.
The Hillsborough Board of Adjustment caved into
pressure from this group Wednesday night and failed
to grant PHE a conditional use permit to move into a
new building in the Meadowlands Industrial Park in
northern Hillsborough.
Unfortunately, the board and activists failed to
realize that PHE has as legitimate a reason as any
other company to move to the industrial park. The
denial of the special-use permit was based in part on
PHE’s failure “to protect motorists and pedestrians.”
Protect them from what? No rational answer to this
question comes to mind because there isn’t one.
Contrary to the beliefs of some, the company’s
existence in the park would not harm anyone or
pollute the minds of children. All of the community’s
Many faculty members and teaching assistants at
the University make a difference daily in the educa
tional experiences of their students.
The Students’ Undergraduate Teaching Awards
offer the chance for students to say a big “thank you”
to those faculty who take time to make that differ
ence, and send a message to the administration as to
what students think comprises quality teaching.
Nomination forms are available at Chase Hall and
Lenoir Dining Hall, the Campus Y, Davis Library,
Granville Towers, the Undergraduate Library and
the Union desk. The forms are due Sunday at 5 p.m.,
so students have plenty of time to pick one up, fill it
out and drop it off at the designated locations around
campus.
This University is blessed with tenured professors,
nontenured professors and teaching assistants, many
of whom combine their research/publication accom
plishments with the ability to teach undergraduates.
More than just a handful of professors are considered
the best in their fields in research, and for that the
University has gained a great reputation.
Tar Heel Quotable^
"We just don't cancel class for snow."
Chancellor Paul Hardin, on the
likelihood that the weather might
interfere with education.
"The problem to me is when people say we
can improve education by hammering on the
teachers."
U.S. Secretary of Education Richard
Riley in a series of discussions on President
Clinton’s economic and educational plans
held on the UNC campus Friday.
"Hillary care will not replace health care."
House Minority Whip U.S. Rep. Newt
Gingrich, R-Ga., speaking to a John Locke
Foundation fund-raiser in Raleigh Monday.
"They're like the KKK and neo-Nazis."
Gaile Chaney, Hillsborough resident,on
the nature of PHE Inc., a distributor of
sexual material seeking to relocate from
Carrboro to Hillsborough.
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Sex scare
children who have to be protected from the evil that
supposedly lurks behind the closed doors of PHE
were conceived somehow. They haven’t yet been
corrupted by what goes on behind their parents’
closed doors.
Local residents and out-of-town visitors coming
into Carrboro on N.C. 54 only see PHE’s present
location as a brick building that looks like any
business. And that’s what it is. There are no sex toys
or pornographic pictures taped to the mailbox, and
there aren’t any life-sized posters with sexual under
tones (or overtones) up in the windows.
PHE’s move would have supplied the town of
Hillsborough with about 100 new jobs and an in
crease its tax base of $20,000 per year. It would not
make the town “The Pornography Capital of the
South” nor would it “endanger public, health and
general welfare.” These arguments that opponents
recently presently are weak.
PHE Inc. is the victim of a coalition of ministers
afraid to let individuals decide for themselves what
“pollutes” a community. The two members of the
Hillsborough Board of Adjustment who voted against
the measure also fell prey to McCarthyism tactics
a trumped-up “sex scare” as effective and empty as
the infamous Senator’s “Red scare.”
An apple for teachers
But teaching is what these awards are all about,
and it should be at the forefront of any educational
experience.
Following the research versus teaching debates
spawned by the tenure denial (and later approval) of
speech communication Assistant Professor Paul
Ferguson, who won the award in 1992, these awards
take on even larger meaning.
Administrators and deans, some of whom think
only publication and research belie excellent teach
ing skills, must pay attention to the names that
students put forward. While tenured professors will
rank high among the nominations, so will teaching
assistants and nontenured professors.
If nomination forms are not available at one loca
tion, go to another and g M a form. The administration
surely will listen to 20,000 nominations for teaching
awards.
Taking a few minutes to reward a faculty member
or TA who could give present and future University
students a lifetime of learning isn’t too much of a
sacrifice.
"The first thing we did to mock the DTH,
we gave them a memo that made no sense. It
was a joke and they just didn't get it."
Student Body President John Moody,
about the memo on which he forged
Student Body Vice President
Charlie Higgins’ initials.
"We cannot afford to continue the status
quo. Those who want to continue business as
usual will be running a failed business."
U.S. Vice President A1 Gore, in an
address he gave to the N.C. General
Assembly last Friday.
"Not one woman who has gone through the
Honor Court process or has taken a case to it
has recommended (going through the student
courts)."
Ruth Campbell, co-chairwoman of
Women Against Rape, on the experiences
of rape victims who have pressed charges
in the Honor Court.
SM Hi
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Secret formula for Crystal Pepsi discovered
I’m sick. In fact, I’m writing this
column on a borrowed portable com
puter in a hospital bed at Student
Health. I even have an IV stuck in my
hand. Yum. Because of this, I suspect
that my column will be much shorter
this week, and, since I’ve neglected to
tell this to my editor, don’t be too sur
prised if the middle part of this page is
taken up with a doodle space or a word
search.
I hate being sick. I hate it not so much
for the physical pain, but rather for the
loss of freedom that comes with having
to wise up to the fact that man is, after
all, matter, and needs to be taken care
of. I only get sick once a year, but when
I do I usually end up with an IV in me.
I am especially peeved about being sick
this time because I just recently pur
chased a copy of Gray’s Anatomy. Af
ter I bought it, I thought I’d never have
to worry about my body again, because
now I have the manual! Sadly, I found
that Gray’s Anatomy, chock full of great
pictures of spines and spleens and
muscle tissue, is less of a repair manual
and more of a parts catalog, which does
me no good.
Hospitals are really boring, which is
why you find so many more people in
comas in hospitals than anywhere else.
I guess the most exciting thing I’ve
done today revolves around my IV.
After the nurse who stuck it in me left,
I pulled the tube out of my hand and
tasted some of it, just out of curiosity. It
tasted familiar, but I couldn’t quite put
my finger on it. So I tried an experi
ment. I took one of the carbon dioxide
Miracles expected of STV
on pennies from heaven
To the editor:
In deciding to defund Student Tele
vision to the point of being barely func
tional, Student Congress members pre
sented the argument that STV was “a
luxury” or something the campus could
easily do without. Although some stu
dents may consider that true, I’d like to
show that they’re misguided.
STV certainly is a luxury if you just
watch it while flipping around channels
on week nights. It serves little purpose
but to entertain watchers and some
times it doesn’t do that very well. But
STV was not created for the watchers.
It’s a lab a test ground for any student
who wants to have anything to do with
television. All students, even non-ra
dio, television and motion pictures ma
jors can learn to work a camera, write a
script or edit tape if they join STV. It
gives practical experience to students
interested in journalism, TV produc
tion, even comedy. STV is the only
resource on this campus that offers that
service, and it should be allowed to
reach its full potential.
Without proper funding, STV won’t
get that chance. The new people, new
ideas and the new space in the Union
gives STV the potential to become a
powerful part of the media on this cam
pus in the next couple of years. Don’t let
a bad argument from a few members of
Student Congress take that away.
BRYAN TUCKER
Senior
Journalism
Construction on Coker-
Bell Tower site ill advised
To the editor:
I was thankful for the letter by biol
ogy graduate students, Philip Coulling
and Kathy Baker-Brosh (Coker-Bell
Tower site not place for new buildings,
Feb. 18), which asked that the wooded
area between Coker Hall and the Bell
Tower be spared from development.
I grew up in Chapel Hill, and have
been dismayed at the toll taken by some
of the construction here, especially
what’s happened on South Campus, as
mentioned by Mr. Coulling and Ms.
Baker-Brosh in their letter.
While studying at UNC about 10
years ago, I took a couple of botany
courses at Coker Hall. Our professor,
William Dickison, took the class into
the Coker woodland and along its creek
one day. He wanted to show us the
magic of the place, a complete ecosys
tem in this surviving wedge of forest.
cartridges from
the model
rocket set my
mom left me to
amuse myself
with while bed
ridden and re
leased it into the
IV tube, carbon
ating the liquid
within. Then I
tasted it again
and stumbled
onto an amazing
Jason
Torchinsky
Turn Your Head
and Cough j
discovery: I had duplicated Crystal
Pepsi.
I’m starting to shake, which means
that my fever has come back. I think the
theory behind fevers is kind of suspect,
anyway. I had one that got up to 103
today, so, to make it more pleasant, I
recalled why the body gets fevers: By
increasing the body’s temperature, the
body is attempting to make an inhospi
table environment for whatever’s in
fecting it. I guess this is a good idea, but
to me, right now, it seems like setting
your house on fire because you have a
burglar.
Hospitals aren’t all bad, I suppose.
After all, how often can you find a
group of people so interested in you that
they actively record every time you
urinate? Also, with a little imagination,
one can make a hospital visit more
amusing. For example, when your nurse
comes in, it’s often fun to ask if you can
be bumped up to first class. Or, when
your IV bag is being changed, insist on
getting one filled with chili. Plus, if
READERS' FORUM
I pass by from time to time now, and
to imagine that this wooded niche may
be destroyed is awful.
It’s well worth trying to meet the
needs for the BCC and a possible new
physical sciences building in a way that
does not decimate the Coker woodland.
MARGARET HEATH
UNC Class of 1984
Chapel Hill
Waste dump sites chosen
for all the wrong reasons
Editor’s note: The writer is co-chair
man of the Committee for Equality and
Environmental Justice, a subcommittee
ofSEAC.
To the editor:
I am writing this letter to hopefully
clear up some misconceptions portrayed
in the editorial concerning the proposed
“low-level” radioactive waste dump that
appeared in the DTH on Feb. 17 titled
“Wasteful activism.” I would like to
start by expressing that it pleases me to
see this issue receiving increased atten
tion by the DTH and the rest of the UNC
community. I think it is important to
have an open dialogue on such issues so
that all the different sides can be under
stood. However, if one side is being
misrepresented, then it should be de
fended. I think the activists addressed in
the editorial have been misrepresented.
The editorial emphasized that some
Triangle activists have the “not-in-my
backyard” mentality, but this is just not
the case. The activists’ sincere concerns
go beyond their backyards, and they
make it a point for this to be understood.
These concerns are reflected in the
groups’ requests for responsible man
agement of the waste.
The editorial is correct; the Chatham
County residents are capable of protest
ing, and so are the residents of Rich
mond County. The groups NC
GROUND ZERO and FORRCE, of
Chatham and Richmond counties re
spectively, show that. The other groups
are involved, not because they see the
residents of these counties as incapable.
The activists understand that this issue
concerns all of us, and the voice of all
should be heard.
I would also like to respond to the
points about the selected sites. Chatham
and Richmond counties were both taken
off the list of proposed sites in the
original site selection process because
of geologic insufficiencies. These two
sites were placed back on the top of the
list after a report found that these two
counties were the most politically fea
sible counties. The site-selection pro
cess was corrupt and deserves criticism.
I commend the DTH for its interest in
you’ve ever wanted to yell lots of mean
ingless phrases and even some profan
ity, a fever provides you with the per
fect excuse. You were delirious!
Nobody’s going to question someone
with a fever.
Having people around to wait on you
is pretty nice. When I’m released, I
think I might snag the nurse call-button
box so I can enjoy this kind of service in
my own home. Actually, maybe not. A
nurse just handed me the most foul
tasting chicken broth I’ve ever gagged
down. Oh yeah, It’s up to you if you
want to acknowledge the pun or not. It
wasn’t intentional, but, if you like that
kind of thing, who am I to stop you?
I’ve been given abreakfast tray, popu
lated with standard, yet blander, break
fast foodstuffs that has a tag that says
“soft” on it. This makes me wonder if
there’s a special “hard” or a “crunchy”
meal as well. I guess it would have a big
stack of melba toast, some peanut brittle
and a nice rock candy garnish. I should
ask.
All right. I’m getting tired. I’d like to
write more, but I’ve got white blood
cells to manufacture and send out to
reclaim my organs from those protein
sheathed bastards, the viruses. Then
I’ve got to sleep and dream about Slim
Goodbody giving me a stem lecture on
how I need to take better care of myself.
Hopefully, I’ll be out of hereby the time
this is printed. Take care of yourselves.
Plenty of liquids. Solidarity.
Jason Torchinsky is senior art his
tory major from Greensboro.
this issue, displayed by its printing of
different cartoons and articles. I do ask,
though, that we all understand other
positions before we call them childish,
as the editorial failed to do. I encourage
all to read the different literature and
listen to the different views, because
this issue goes beyond someone’s back
yard. This affects all of us.
JOHN BRIGHT
Junior
Political Science
‘Debate’ on evolution
exhibits faith over reason
To the editor:
Much has been written concerning
the arrival of Duane Gish and the chal
lenge to debate science with him. In
stead of an attack on Dr. Gish’s charac
ter or on any specific issue, I will let
Duane Gish speak for himself as to what
constitutes science.
First, Gish’s basic tenet: “I have al
ways accepted the Bible as God’s un
changed and unchangeable revelation
and since it described man and his uni
verse as a special creation of God I have
always been a Creationist.” (1974) Gish
was the founding associate director of
the Institute for Creation Research in
San Diego, a facility whose founding
director, Henry Morris, wrote that the
rings of Saturn “... reflect some kind of
heavenly catastrophe associated either
with Satan’s primeval rebellion or his
continuing battle with Michael and his
angels.” (1972) This is the ICR’s brand
of science.
Gish continues, “I have yet to find a
scientific fact which contradicts the
Bible, the word of God.” (1978) This, of
course, means that Dr. Gish believes
(and would have you believe) that bats
are birds rather than mammals. (Lev.
11:13-19; Deut. 14:11-18) Other ex
amples could be cited.
Gish continues: “We do not know
how the Creator created, what processes
He used, for He used processes which
are not now operating anywhere in the
natural universe. This is why we refer to
creation as special creation. We cannot
discover by scientific investigations
anything about the creative processes
used by the Creator.” (1978) Because
Gish believes scientific methods are
inadequate to explain the workings of
the world he feels justified in rejecting
any theory or fact which contradicts his
conception of the universe. Of course
Gish wants a debate; using his rules,
there is no way that he can lose.
THOMAS J. ROSSBACH
Geology Ph.D.
Class of 1992